The Racketeer

Executive Summary: This one is just too ridiculous to really be enjoyable to me. Not one of Mr. Grisham's better works.Audio book: I believe this is the first book I've listened to by J.D. Jackson. He's not a bad reader. He takes a stab at some accents. He does a reasonable job given the material he has to work with.Full ReviewI almost debated not reviewing this one. People who normally read/like my reviews probably won't have interest in it anyways, but I decide if nothing else to get my thoughts down before I put this book completely out of my brain.I loved John Grisham when I was younger. My mom always read his books and I tended to pick them up when she was done. In the last few years I would occasionally grab his newer works in audio cd from the library as something to pass time on road trips.I can't tell if my tastes have just changed, or if his writing has gone down hill. I'm too busy to go back and re-read the ones I liked to find out.This book had no likable characters for me and I saw the “big twist” coming a mile away. It wasn't awful, but if it wasn't so short I would have just quit. Somewhere in the middle the story takes an abrupt shift that was rather confusing until I realized it was the way Mr. Grisham was facilitating the “big twist” I had predicted without even trying.If you want to try Mr. Grisham, don't start here. Go with something like [b:A Time to Kill 32542 A Time to Kill (Jake Brigance, #1) John Grisham https://d202m5krfqbpi5.cloudfront.net/books/1320488160s/32542.jpg 1804929] or [b:The Firm 5358 The Firm John Grisham https://d202m5krfqbpi5.cloudfront.net/books/1165518895s/5358.jpg 38270].OK, that's probably more words than this one deserved.